Water-regulating sluice gate



March 18, 1930. EW 1,750,901

WATER REGULATING SLUICE GATE Filed April 7, 1928 Q Q 25 3 2 .42 27INVENTOR 26 RED NEWELL A TTORNEY.

Patnted Mar. 18, 1930 UNITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE,

FRED NEWELL, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA WATER-REGULATING SLUICE GATEApplication filed. April 7, 1928, Serial No. 268,290, and in Canada May30, 1927.

My inventionrelates to improvements in Water regulating sluice gates.

An important object of the invention is to provide means for properlyheating the embedded parts of the gate, and other parts adjacent to suchparts, to prevent the formation of, or to melt, ice from around portionsof the gate and the guide means for the same.

A further object of the invention is to provide heating means which isintegral with or forms a part of portions of the guide means, producinga simplified construction, which not only affords heating facilities butstrengthens the guide means.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent duringthe course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification andin which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughoutthe same, v

Figure 1 is a plan view of a sluice gate, and guide means therefor, thesame being partly diagrammatic,

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the same,

Figure 3 is a transverse section taken on line 3-3 of Figure 4,

Figure 4 is an enlarged horizontal section through one end of the gate,and associated guide means,

Figure 5 is a detailed horizontal section, showing a modified form ofguide means upon the up side of the stream,

Figure 6 is a similar view, showing a modified form of guide means, uponthe down side of the stream, and,

Figure 7 is a similar view, showing a still further modified form ofguide means upon the down side of the stream.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration, is shown apreferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 10 designates avertically movable sluice gate, extending between piers 11. These piershave vertical recesses 12, formed therein, receiving the ends of thesluice gate 10. The sluice gate may be of any well known or preferredtype, but for the purpose of illustration, I have shown the same asembodying plates 13 and 14, connected by horizontal I beams 15. The

plate 14 is upon the up side of the stream and the plate 13" upon thedown side.

Arranged at each siderof the sluice gate 10, upon the down side thereof,are rollers 16, rotatable Within brackets 17, rigidly attached to endplates 19, which are in turn rigidly attached to the I beams 15 throughthe medium of angle irons 20 or, the like. The end plates 19 are'alsoattached to the up stream side plate 18 through the medium of angleirons 21, and a wear plate 22 is attached to the plate 14, adjacent tothe angle irons 21.

Arranged within the recesses 12' is a trans verse vertical face plate23, suitably anchored therein. Upon the down side of the gate 10, isarranged a channel'iron'24, located within the recesses 12, andincludedin the guide means. A wear-plate 25 is secured to the channeliron 24, upon the inner-side thereof. An I beam 26 is arranged upon theouter side of the channel iron 24, and is rigidly attached thereto bywelding orthe like.- The numeral 27 designates an angle iron which isarranged between the channel iron 24 and the I beam 26, and is rigidlyattached theretoby means of welding. The assembled channel iron 24, Ibeam 26, and angle iron 27 -provide a verti-' cal tube or passage 28,which'is adapted for the reception of heating means,such assteam, whichmay be supplied thereto by any-suit able means. The uppe-rend of thispassage or tube may be opened or closed, as desired. Instead ofemploying steam as a heating medium, I may arrange. an electricalheating unit Within the tube or passage 28. Particular attention iscalled to the fact that the I beam 26 and angle iron '27 which areassembled with the channel iron 24, which channel iron constitutes theguide means for the rollers 16, serve to strengthen and reinforce thischannel iron. The rollers .16 travel upon the wear plate 25. v I vArranged upon the upstream side of the gate 10, at each end of the gate,are guide 9 means embodying a vertical channel iron 29, rigidly attachedto the plate 23, by an angle iron 30, or the like. The channel iron 29coacts with the wear plate 22, to limit any possible movement of thegate in an upstream 7 32 isrigidly attached to the channel iron 29 byWelding jorthe like, "to provi'de a tube or;pas

sage 34; *This tube or passage is adapted for receiving a heating,medium, such a's ste'a'm," although an electricall heating unit maydbearranged therein. The upper end of the tube 34 may be closed, ifdesired. Particular at ,tention is calledto the fact that the channeliron 32, when assembled with the guide means channel iron 29,;to producetheltube 34, serves to lstrengthen and reinforce the channel i 0l 2 l sAttachedto each end of the ,gate 10 are rollers 35, arranged to engage atrack. orguide element 36. This guide element 36 is in the rm-m of achannel iron,,is verticallygarranged,

and rigidly attached to the plateg2-b,v The numeral 127 designates aco-acting ichannel iron, assembledwith' -tjhe channeliron 26 to.provideia tu-beor passage 38, these channel 'inons' beingweldedtogether. The channel iron-37 serves to reinforce and stifien the"channel iron 36. v

:Itlis thusseen th i-t the construction such that a heating medium maybe zanolied ad- 'jacent tothe tracks or guide means, and the sealingmeans, to prevent the formation of icelin proximity thereto or to meltthe ice thus,,f0rmed, .THeating means may be applied to thesebartsthroughouttheir entire length.

The guide means embodying, the channel irons 29an1d 32,;Figure4,isshownas mo dified inFigure 5. This guide means is shown in I Figure5 as embodying avertical angle iron 3 9, the vopen side of wh ichiscovered by, a

cnrvediron 40, these parts being welded to-' geth'er providing .a tubeor passagel. I

The track or? guide means, uponthe down.

stream side, of the gate,Figure 4, which includes the channel iron, ismodified in Figure '6. Thismo'dified track or guide means embodies'thevertical channel iron 42, attached to the p1ate'23, and an I beam 43,welded to v the channel iron 24., A Qhannel ir on '44 is weldedto the Ibeam 4:3 and to the plate 23,.

theseparts forming, when assembled, a tube medlum. s V

In F ignre 7, ,thearrangementrshown; in Figure 6 is duplicated, wherebythe: tube or passage is provided. A second tubeor passage 46 is providedby employing an'angle. iron .47 which is welded or rigidly attached .tothe channeliron 42, and I beamr 473..The' passages 49 5 and 46 areadapted for receiving steam or other heating means;

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3, which lead into the lower ends ofthe'tubes or passages, forconducting therefrom any condensation of which may collect therein.

These passages discharge upon the down stream sidejof the gate '10. I rIt is to be understood that the forms of my invention, herewith shownand described, are

to be taken as PIIQfGIl BQl examples of the 7 same, and that variouschanges in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted. towithoutdepa-rting from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of thesubs- Having thusdescribed my invention,

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'Gulde means-for the end of aslulceigate,

comprising a channeliron, rollers canriedby V thegate and co-acting withthe channe l iron, an I beam rigidly securedto the outer side of thechannel iron, an iron rigidly secured to one side of the I beam andrigidly con-- nected with the channel iron, thesie vpartsj beingassembled to produce a tube for tireceiving a-heatingmedium, and anangle iron arranged upon the opposite side of the Ibeam and rigidlyconnected with the -I beamand a heating medium;

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

FRED NEWELL- or passage 45, for the reception of a heating It ispreferred that a drain befprovidedfor the lower end of each tube'orpassage, and this'isindicated by, drain passagefilts Figure ichanneliron to provide a tube forflreceiving

